kuler talk confessional
One thing we are working really hard at is reaching out and being more open, interactive and relevant to our customers with things like the pre-release beta programs for Lightroom and Photoshop CS3, and now for the most recent beta of Soundbooth - as well as open sourcing our technologies such as Tamarin and the Flex SDK. And we're getting far more community involvement, with a far broader audience than we have ever addressed. And nothing is cooler than, well, kuler.
I was checking out some of the web forums the other day and came across kuler talk. This is the online forum for our new free online service to create your own color themes, browse color themes created by others, and share your creations with the kuler community, now over 150,000 strong! What I read there absolutely stunned me—in a positive way. I never thought I'd see the day when someone described themselves as being "addicted" to an Adobe product. But that's what has happened.
Boyd Wiebe , one kuler member said "I don't really consider myself an addict, yet", but acknowledged his immediate family was starting to wonder about his usage. Six hours straight on Kuler... Boyd, let me just say that admitting the problem is the first step in the 12 Step Program!
CBuckley calls herself a "kuler addict.” She's not into denial. I think that when she struggled to reduce her number of published themes from 63 to 36, she knew this was serious. And now she's building up her library again. To her, I say, “We've got plenty of storage space. Keep creating!”
And then there are the folks who are using kuler in interesting ways. Lou*ser is going to paint his house "using sweet color schemes from Adobe kuler.” My personal favorite is another kuler talk post by jaynan.narayanan who has been using kuler along with a few of his colleagues to make interesting rather than "traditional color combinations.” The good news is his wife likes the site too and has begun to spend time there with him —so I’m guessing it’s been good for his marriage.
kuler: Explore your colors, share your creativity, save your marriage. But do be careful as we are still searching for the antidote.
By the way, what you see in kuler, an online hosted service application, is just the beginning. Stay tuned for additional wildly successful web services that will augment the incredible foundation of the CS3 Suites and point products.